I've never seen the president burdened by the presidency. He's built to deal with really big events. It's in his DNA.

Conventional wisdom may be upside-down. The economy is always an issue, but I think . . . it has to be viewed in different terms. The Gore camp will try to take credit for the economy. I don't think the voters see it that way.

People are really hungry for change, and we need to give them something to hang that change on. The picture of what they don't like is in their minds; what they want to see is the alternative.

Clinton helped create a values election.

You adapt to the circumstances and the circumstances are different. I get zero sense of that. This is an administration and a president that are like the Marines -- they're used to taking the beach, they're used to getting shelled. But they dig in and they do their jobs.

I think Karl is right back in the middle of the picture, and will be for the foreseeable future.

It's one thing to talk about your plan to rebuild the military, but by using the innocence of a child, playing innocence off of war, it created a powerful message emotionally, ... The best way to communicate anything is emotional.